Quotes About Expectations

Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

Getting respect from one's own family was like trying to draw blood from a stone.

When you catch yourself saying things and doing things that indicate you expect the other person will know exactly what you mean and will do what you anticipate, take a minute and see if you actually asked for what you wanted. Chances are you never asked.

Before we ask, or when we never get the words out to ask, we have the tendency to make a lot of assumptions.

Haz lo que deseas, y no lo que todos esperan de ti. Deja que sea tu corazón el que guíe tus actos.

Así que ahora soy una chica casi civilizada. Ya tengo Visa y teléfono móvil. ¿Qué será lo próximo? ¿Ropa chula hiperceñida? ¿Un coche? ¿Novio?

It was wounded pride. The only thing worse than throwing herself at him was clinging to him afterward and pressuring him to feel things he didn't. Dani

But now I saw the real problem with chasing after a man. It wasn't a matter of being unseemly or socially unacceptable or not playing the game right. It was just this: if I chase him, I'll never really know if he cares enough to chase me.

Being female was so hard. Always having to rearrange yourself, to pluck yourself and whittle yourself and deprive yourself and inspect yourself in order to feel comfortable in this world.

as if we were actual human beings or completely normal people

I'm still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations." "That may be so, but

You were different after your father died. She was wrong, of course. It was true that he'd changed toward her, but she had misinterpreted the cause. It wasn't his father's death and his ascension to the title the year before that caused him to shut her out the summer she came home and treat her as a servant rather than a friend. It was the fact that being friends with her had ceased to be enough, and anything more had never been possible.

the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.

Lizzie Darbury won't do," Vivian said. "She never understands Harry's jokes. She just stares at him as if he's a bit touched in the head and doesn't laugh." "And that's important," Louisa said. "Men do hate it when we don't find them amusing. Especially Harry. It quite upsets him.

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

He tilted her face upward as if he meant to kiss her. Shocked, Maria resisted, glancing toward the people at the table, some of them are smiling, some disapproving, some thoroughly appalled. She looked back at him, doubtful. "Does a gentleman kiss a woman in front of other people?" He tilted her head back. "This one does," he said and captured her lips with his.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies.

She's always late, except when we're late, and then she gives us unmitigated shit.